A World Out of Time

De: Larry Niven

Narrado por: Tom Weiner

After more than two hundred years as a corpsicle, Jaybee Corbell awoke in someone else’s body and under threat of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars.

But Corbell bided his time and made his own move. Once he was outbound, where the society that ruled Earth could not reach him, he headed his starship toward the galactic core, where the unimaginable energies of the universe wrenched the fabric of time and space and promised final escape from his captors.

Then he returned to an Earth eons older than the one he’d left, a planet that had had three million years to develop perils he had never dreamed of - perils that became nightmares that he had to escape... somehow.

Larry Niven is the multiple Hugo and Nebula award–winning author of the Ringworld series, as well as many other science fiction masterpieces. His Beowulf’s Children, coauthored with Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes, was a New York Times best seller. He lives in Chatsworth, California.

©1976 Larry Niven (P)2012 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Reseñas de la Crítica

“This fantastic novel is a mix of Niven hard science and a time-travel concept to boggle the mind.…Even after the last line the feeling remains of the story still rushing on into the magic distance of the universe.” (A. E. van Vogt, winner of the SFWA Grand Master Award)

“Niven rams this fantastic tale at the reader with taut authority, mixing hard science with mind-boggling concepts of time and space to give us a whole new kind of trip.” ( Publishers Weekly)

“Niven’s intoxicating concepts, ideas, scientific extrapolations, and exotic hardware bubble up from every page. Rich in imagination and astonishing in breadth…Will challenge the most sophisticated readers.” ( Booklist)

Easy easy & easy

Sure was nice visiting a story that wasn't clogged with a bunch of unnecessary characters / details & back stories.
Just glided through the story....

Don't drink while listening to this one

If you could sum up A World Out of Time in three words, what would they be?

Love and Hate

What did you like best about this story?

I loved the narration and the sense of wit of the main character. Some very cool concepts for sci fi fans

Which scene was your favorite?

anytime the main character interacted with his computer on the shace ship

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

out of body out of world experience

Any additional comments?

Do not drink while listening to this book as you will have no idea what is happening!

Relocating planets is just one of the cool topics!

This is my third Niven book and I just can't get enough. My favorite book so far as been Ringworld but I also found this one to be very interesting. It involves plenty of space travel, some AI, and plenty of dystopia. I loved how the novel technically takes place over a huge time period because the main character goes into cryo so often. This book encompasses so many theories of how the world could go in the future: What if girls ruled the sky and boys ruled the earth? What if adults were just used to make children? What if there was immortality? What if you could move planets? Plus there's a whole Les Mis kinda part where a government official is obsessed with bringing to justice the main character. Lots of action and plenty of interesting science.

Not bad, but not the first book I'd recommend.

What did you like best about A World Out of Time? What did you like least?

I enjoyed the ideas of what the future may hold. I felt that it lagged in the middle.

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

I don't know if it's the sort of book you could change much.

Which character – as performed by Tom Weiner – was your favorite?

Jaybee Corbell

Did A World Out of Time inspire you to do anything?

Ummm nope.

It's an older book, but hey I liked it.

it was well thought out and written story. The narrator spoke and played the characters in a very believable manner. Overall I enjoyed this story.